I do wonder who pays to have all these comments put on hacker news. This happens a lot on Russia-related threads as well. Or is it just some nationality who learned incorrect history. On the Russia-related threads I would've put it to people from India as there's a big tech group there and they speak English and their country is cozy with Russia, but they wouldn't be defending China.
I'm from Germany, and i don't feel like the US is seeing itself as "equal" as to other countries. The US is one of the most militarily aggressive states, just within my lifetime, they invaded Afghanistan, Iraq and had several weird operations in Syria and Libya. "Normal" values would be zero. I long for the day when US war crimes are treated the same way as war crimes by non-western countries. Instead they pull off s…
Re: Former Xinjiang prisoner arrives in U.S. as key witness to abuses
#281You can make the argument about Iraq but in the case of Afghanistan the 9/11 attacks were a declaration of war and the US defended itself. 2,996 people died and over 6000 were wounded in the attack that started that war.